they worked efficiently, spending six weeks recording the album and an additional two weeks mixing it. Sting chalked it up to being well-prepared, with a regiment that included always having at least 20 songs written and recorded in demo form prior to entering the...
Highlight for the soundtrack that encompasses everything that these three episodes bring, with an entire album dedicated to each chapter, the songs are largely responsible for involving us in the shallow story.Fortunately this little Spin Off of a series brought us a new version in the future,...
critical peak with the multiplatinum albumSynchronicity(1983). On all their work, Summers’sevocativeguitarplaying and Copeland’spolyrhythmicvirtuosity provided a solid foundation for Sting’s impassioned vocals and sophisticated lyrics (which included references toVladimir NabokovandArthur Koestler)....
The sessions, which were filmed for a BBC documentary hosted by Jools Holland, were completed within a couple months, and the album, Ghost in the Machine, appeared in the fall of 1981. Ghost in the Machine became an instant hit, reaching number one in the U.K. and number two in the ...
Zenyatta Mondatta, released in the fall of 1980, became the Police's North American breakthrough, reaching the Top Ten in the U.S. and Canada; in England, the album spent four weeks at number one. "Don't Stand So Close to Me," the album's first single, became the group's second ...
On the Police's debut album, Outlandos d'Amour, lead vocalist/bassist Sting sings in a sleight-of-hand variety of styles: there's a high-pitched quaver reminiscent of Ray Davies on the love songs, some Jamaican patois trotted out for the reggae cuts, a bit of Roger Daltrey's phlegm-tha...
Ghost in the Machinepushed the band further out as they replaced producer Nigel Gray with High Padgham and embarked on one of the first digitally influenced albums, creating a sound that defined the decade for many. Probably most people are familiar with the hits offGhost– after all ‘Every ...
the prototype. One of the five songs can however be identified asCold Hearted Woman, written by Marty Conn. A band called Streets released an album in 1983 with a version ofCold Hearted Womanwhich sounds fairly similar, though that song is track 2 on side B whereas the prototype has the ...
3. 'Ghost in the Machine' (1981) Following the commercial and somewhat stagnant moves of 'Zenyatta Mondatta,' the Police followed up with their smartest, knottiest and most compact album. It's an ambitious work too, both lyrically and musically, with songs like "Spirits in the Material Worl...
3. 'Ghost in the Machine' (1981) Following the commercial and somewhat stagnant moves of 'Zenyatta Mondatta,' the Police followed up with their smartest, knottiest and most compact album. It's an ambitious work too, both lyrically and musically, with songs like "Spirits in the Material Worl...